unnecessary tlb flush in mprotect

[Alex Shi]

when mprotect just change prots of non-present pages, current mprotect
still do the tlb flush in check_protection().
but according to 4.10.2.3 Intel SDM V3A (
www.intel.com/Assets/ja_JP/PDF/manual/253668.pdf ) at that time, TLB has
no this lines for this page. So, tlb flush is just waste time. (for cr3
rewrite, flush all tlb, or invlpg, like a 'nop' in intel cpu)

Do we need to add the pte_present similar check here to prevent the
unnecessary tlb flushing? I mean, are there real case in word, User like
to change page prots before assign a physical page to it?



Alex Shi
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